Category: Social Sciences

Professor Marusek specializes in legal geography, legal semiotics, and constitutive legal theory within the disciplinary field of public law. She explores places and spaces to better understand law and legality.

Professor Belt studies homelessness, the mass media, and the presidency. His research on homelessness has resulted in the collection of the richest, most detailed study to date on the attitudes and opinions of homeless people.

Professor Morrison researches women’s health and domestic violence in Hilo. Her topics include inquiry into menopause, domestic violence, and breastfeeding practices of young women, all conducted about women in Hilo.

An expert in tropical forest climate, hydrology, ecology, paleo-ecology, wildlife conservation, and ecological studies, Professor Juvik’s most important contribution to the climatological field is development of the “Juvik Fog Gauge,” now used worldwide to provide standardized fog measurements. He’s also an international expert on tortoises.

Professor Inglis researches the sense of community in Molokai leprosy settlement. She has devoted her career to studying the history of leprosy in Hawai‘i with focus on the history of kama‘āina who lived on the peninsula of Kalaupapa, Molokai.